The History
Thursday, August 17, 2023
“The best thing about R is that it was written by statisticians. The worst thing about R is that it was written by statisticians.” - Bow Cowgill, Google
This presentation will touch base on the following sections:
S programming language.
| Feature | R | Python |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Statistical language | General purpose language |
| First Release | 1993 | 1991 |
| USP | Statistical analysis, data exploration and visualization | ML, Deep Learning, Big Data |
| IDE | R Studio, VSCode | Jupyter notebooks, Spyder, VSCode, PyCharm |
| Common Libraries | tidyverse, caret, shiny, rmarkdown, ggplot2, plotly | Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, scikit-learn |
| Eco System | ~20,000+ packages on CRAN | ~300,000+ packages on PyPi |
| Trend (Dec 2022) | 11 in TIOBE and 7th in PYPL | 1 in TIOBE and 1 in PYPL |
Intro to R - The History